Downtown – Elizabethtown, Kentucky
We only had a few minutes while driving through to see Elizabethtown, Kentucky. There was enough there to take a few photos and quick notes about what we saw.
A prominent location had an interesting metal armature with life-size illustrations of different people who were representative of different themes such as Education and Medicine. This partially achieves the “reforming” tactic that Jeff Speck writes about in his book Walkable City.
The street is tight and compact with two-story and three-story buildings to each side. The narrow sidewalks turn lane means that there is no room for parking on the street. At the end of the street is a visual terminus with an attractive multi-story brick building with a balustraded parapet, Palladian window on the upper floor level, and a flag pole in front.